Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old freshman apparently pulled the trigger accidentally while adjusting his rifle strap, police said last night. According to conflicting reports of eyewitnesses, Zilahy picked up the rifle, a .22 calibre Winchester, and found the leather sling too tight. In either a sitting or kneeling position, he attempted to loosen the sling, they said. The gun discharged, and the bullet lodged in Zilahy's forehead...
Photo candidates will find a cameraman's paradise in the CRIMSON. You don't even used a camera: everything but a trigger finger is furnished...
Some distance away toward the south, in a field near Limoges, Hunters Louis Autef and Jean Riffort bowled over a rabbit with a long shot. As Autef stooped to pick up the beast, the rabbit kicked the trigger of his shot gun and sent a load of shot hurtling into the shoulder of Hunter Riffort. The hunter was rushed to a doctor. The rabbit hopped...
Roseanna McCoy (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio). In all its years of mining movies out of the trigger-happy hills of U.S. history and legend, Hollywood had somehow never hit on the famous feud of the West Virginia Hatfields and the Kentucky McCoys. With Roseanna McCoy, Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Irving (Enchantment) Reis have made good the oversight. The result is primarily a story of young love, more pastoral than pugnacious...
...Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend" is a merry and colorful concoction of topflight stars, tuneful song hits, grand production, and youthful romance spiced with the Preston Sturges brand of roaring comedy. La Grable displays all of her luscious charms in the role of a trigger-happy heroine with the biggest six-shooters in the West . . . --From a Metropolitan Theatre Press Release